Lab members

• Paul Martin
  (Principal Investigator) Paul is interested in anything woundy or linked to inflammation in any model from mouse and man to fish and flies.
• Francesca Robertson
  (Post doc) Francesca will be using Drosophila to investigate how innate immune cells respond to wound cues.
• Kaiming Luo
  (Post doc) Kaiming did fishy things during her PhD in Australia and will be investigating wound and cancer inflammation, again in zebrafish, during her time in Bristol.
• Mark Naven
  (Post doc) Mark is trying to figure out how the circadian clock might impact on tissue repair via inflammatory cell control of fibroblast matrix deposition.
• Oscar Peña Cabello
  (Post doc) Oscar will be using zebrafish wound models to validate potential "scarring" genes that arise from population health studies in Nic Timpson's lab.
• Tim Byatt
  Tim's PhD project(s) are all led by comparative proteomics. He's comparing how plants heal wounds versus how animals heal wounds versus how cancers progress in animals.
• Juma Ward
  Juma is a PhD student who studies how platelets (called thrombocytes in zebrafish) and microclots, together with local inflammatory cells, impact on tumour metastasis.
• Luke Deane
  Luke is a PhD student using zebrafish cancer models to study the cellular effects that radiotherapy has on the inflammatory response and how this impacts the tumour.
• Jake Turley
  Jake is a mathematician doing a joint PhD, modelling wound healing in Drosophila with co-supervisors Tannie Liverpool and Isaac Chenchiah (Maths) and Helen Weavers (Biochem).
• Anne George
  Anne is a PhD student working on zebrafish wound healing models and is focused on understanding how inflammation regulates some of the lesser studied wound lineages like adipocytes and melanocytes.

• Terrence Trinca
  (Post doc) Terrence will be using Drosophila to screen and characterise novel extravasation genes. He works jointly with the Martin and Weavers labs.
• Paco Lopez Cuevas
  Paco (post doc) is researching how we might reprogramme the inflammatory response to make it better at killing cancer and healing wounds using zebrafish and human cell culture models. He works jointly with Martin and Mann (Chemistry) labs.
• Esther Prada-Sanchez
  Esther is a specialist technician who works half time in our lab on all things fishy.
• Mario Ortega Sandoval
  (Administrative Assistant) Mario keep us all in order, managing our finances and lab meetings, etc.

• Lucy MacCarthy-Morrogh
  Lucy is a Lecturer in the School of Biochemistry. She was previously our lab's Senior Scientific Officer and maintains an interest in the cancer inflammation projects in the lab.
• Debi Ford
  Debi is a senior histology technician and was previously the lab's technical manager.

• This could be you!
  We are currently recruiting post docs in several of the areas we work in.
• This could be you!
  There are a range of PhD programmes that would mean you could sign up and potentially do a PhD in our lab. See the links below for further details: